Fishing rod holder

• US 4,235,409 A
• Filed: 03/12/1979
• Issued: 11/25/1980
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Raymond V. Cummings
• Original Assignee: Raymond V. Cummings
• Inventors: Cummings, Raymond V.
• Primary Examiner(s): Foss, J. Franklin
• Application Number:
  US06/019,498
• Time in Patent Office: 624 Days
• Field of Search: 248/535, 248/518, 248/519, 248/520, 248/534, 248/538, 248/539, 85/1 H
• US Class Current: 248/538
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 97/10 Supports for rods

Abstract

A fishing rod holder which may be easily clamped to a typical wooden dock having slots between the boards making up the dock. The holder has an anchoring means which is easily inserted through the slots and then turned to underlie the boards adjoining the slots. The anchor is then tightened to grasp the wooden boards securely between the base and the anchor. There is also provided as part of the holder a tubular socket sitting on a post attached to the base for receiving a fishing pole handle. To insure that the holder will not turn, holes are provided in which a peg may be inserted providing positive alignment of the holder in various directions.

Claims

1. A fishing rod holder to be attached to a dock having a slot therethrough comprising;

a base portion with a width greater than the width of said slot;

an anchor having a first position for allowing an anchor portion below the base to be vertically movable through the slot, said anchor rotatable into a second position where said anchor portion is no longer so movable;

said anchor portion comprising a screw threaded cross member of a length greater than the width of the slot joined to a screw threaded stem which passes upward through the base, the stem and cross member joined to resemble an inverted T;

a fishing rod handle holding means comprising a post having an inclined upper portion and connected to the top side of the base and a tubular socket seated on and along said upper portion for insertion of a fishing rod handle therein;

means for causing the base and said anchor portion when in the second position to grasp the dock therebetween comprising a wing nut on the threaded portion of the stem extending above the base which may be turned to decrease the distance between the base and the cross member thereby causing the dock to be grasped; and

the base having a hole spaced from where the anchor passes through the base a distance greater than the width of the slot for insertion of a peg so that when the anchor is inserted through the slot and a peg is inserted through the hole into the slot the base will not rotate with respect to the slot.